Forspoken is a game that was shown off a few years ago as almost a tech demo. It was this gorgrous engine that seemed to wow many and raise eyebrows as it had the Square Enix name attached. The game itself being created by the FF15 DEVS. It promised a lot.
Gameplay:
This is probably the best part of the game. The combat is essentially casting spells to damage enemies via 4 elements gained over the course of the story. The particle effects and epic combos do work really well and matched with the games signature "magic parkour" movement. You essentially become a dancing magic weilder slipping and sliding between magic zombies, dragons and other wild creatures.
The movement feels really nice as well. It does progress over the game with new additional movements to help traverse the landscape. In the end game, it does become fun just running across the map doing flips.
Story:
AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAA WHAT STORY.
This game honestly loses all sense of enjoyment as soon as you hit any point of dialouge. Outside of all the memes made. The story honestly is terrible.
It's an isekai which I normally enjoy but the main character Frey is honestly one of the biggest piles of shit humanity can offer. She is an awful human being to everyone she meets, which makes her insufferable. Characters will go out of there way to help her and she will tell them to fuck off.
The story itself is predictable and I guessed everything from chapter 1.
It's garbage. This is a story that gives the second last chapter an hour or more of exposition followed by I kid you not, sudden out of nowhere character development that makes no sense in the last half hour and goes against every single aspect of the character thus far.
To mention the dialouge, it's not terrible like the memes make it but it's slow paced delivery followed with its awkward in game dialouge is just mixed into a bag of awful.
Every conversation feels like it takes 10 years longer than it needs to.
I have never looked more forward to not seeing any more cutscenes or dialouge than I was when I beat this game.
Other issues:
This is icon central. If you hate big open world games with nothing to do except open fields and collectathons, this is a game not for you! The platinum grind was so mind numbing and makes you realise how terribly the map is designed. It's meant to be segmented but it feels pasted together due to the terrible in game map design and layout.
Random storms will occur which you means you can't do anything until you're out of them. Pretty annoying when you're in a platforming mountain range and the area becomes hard to see with enemies attacking you 24/7 in hoards which makes it almost impossible to progress.
Overall:
I hate this game. I honestly can't say I've hated a game this much in my life. This was atrocious and the ONLY saving grace is it's gorgeous visuals and fun-ish gameplay.
It's story, Characters, mechanics, layout, design, dialouge timing are the worst I've seen in a video game.
Please don't buy it at full price. Wait for a mega sale on it and even then, prepare to hate yourself.
If you end up liking Frey by the end of the game, I will just assume you're the toxic friend in your group and don't realise it ❤
She made me uncomfortable in every way and thank god the game understood that until it ruins all of it at the very end where they go "CHARACTER DEVLOPMENT HERE I GUESS"


Please for the love of god, play ANYTHING but this